Re: Loading Standard Packages
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg8539] Re: [mg8467] Loading Standard Packages
- From: Kristina Pawlikowski <pawlikk at wl.wpafb.af.mil>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 23:16:09 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Not sure if this is what is causing your problem, but there is a difference between ` and '. For loading packages, I believe that Mma requires you to use `. >Sorry that this is a really newbie question, but I can't seem to load any of >the standard add on packages. Well, that's not really true... Let me >explain. > >I wanted to play around with the graphics, so I evaluated: > ><< Graphics'Polyhedra' > >Which should have loaded the package. However, the response I get back is: > >Get::noopen : Cannot open Graphics'Polyhedra'. > >This is the response I get back no matter what add on I try to load. > > >The really odd thing is when I go into the help, and look in the add-on's >book, and evaluate: > ><<DiscreteMath`CombinatorialFunctions` > >in the help browser itself. This works fine! > >I then go back to my notebook where I tried to load the polyhedra package, >and strangely enough, it loads just fine as well... > >Obviously, I'm missing some initialization step, but I can't seem to find >out what it is... > >If someone could help me out on this, I'd be much obliged. Oh, and if I >could get a pointer to the docs where all this is cleared up, I'd be very >grateful... > >Thanks, > >Hal > > > > > > >